Re: pgsql: Efficient transaction-controlled synchronous replication. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 17:27 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

> And,, I found one bug ;) You seem to have wrongly removed the check
> of max_wal_senders in SyncRepWaitForLSN. This can make the
> backend wait for replication even if max_wal_senders = 0. I could produce
> this problematic situation in my machine. The attached patch fixes this problem.

There may be a bug, but that's not the fix.

I spotted that issue myself in testing. I put in a protection to stop
setting synchronous_standby_names if max_wal_senders is zero, with error
message.

Are you saying the committed version doesn't trigger that ERROR?

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